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Ray Van Dolson Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?
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On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:49:22AM -0500, Gordon McLellan wrote:
> Ray,
>
> I meant SAS; specifically Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drives. Here's a
> tiny version of their huge url:
>
> http://tiny.cc/3X9fI
>
> No, they are not the super fast and expensive 15krpm database drives.
>
> -Gordon

Ah.  So the description says it's a SATA drive, but I guess the
connector is SAS...

Thanks for the link!


>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd@bludgeon.org> wrote:
> > I'm guessing you mean SATA instead of SAS.
> >
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Gordon McLellan So the short answers are: 1) centos/redhat possess no built-in means of block-level replication via...
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Ray Van Dolson I'm guessing you mean SATA instead of SAS. I suppose you could perhaps do something with iSCSI or...
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Gordon McLellan Ray, I meant SAS; specifically Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drives. Here's a tiny version of their huge...
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Ray Van Dolson Ah. So the description says it's a SATA drive, but I guess the connector is SAS... Thanks for the...
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Les Mikesell It's the same connector except keyed so you can plug a SATA device into a SAS backplane but not the...
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Les Mikesell But, I think the OP's real problem is that everything is tied to one single large drive (i.e. the...
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Gordon McLellan Les, That's pretty much my problem. I was hoping to kill two birds with one stone here. First order...
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Rainer Duffner Well, you can always have spare HW onsite. Unless we are talking about a colo-situation, that's...
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Les Mikesell My solution for semi-critical stuff (i.e. a few minutes of downtime won't cost the 6 figures it...
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Rudi Ahlers I've been contemplating a setup similar to what you're referring to. Basically, take two PC's, (say...
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Jed Reynolds I think that Les makes a good point, and I'd like to push the point even more generally: providing...
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Steve Thompson Indeed. They're not SAS either. Steve
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Jerry Franz From the manufacturer's page: "Barracuda ES.2 SAS 3.0-Gb/s 1-TB Hard Drive" Sure sounds like SAS to...
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Gordon McLellan Reading the datasheet, my interpretation is Seagate has taken a ide drive chassis (7200rpm, PMR,...
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nate SAS and SATA use the same physical interface, the drive mentioned is most definitely SATA. Largest...
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Joshua Baker-LePain No. No it isn't. It's SAS. The platters etc are the same hardware used in the SATA part, but the...
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Ray Van Dolson Hehe, I think the somewhat confusing part about SAS is that you expect it to be a SCSI disk and...
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nate Sounds like you need a better vendor for a solution that will work. nate
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John R Pierce its a typo on that page, probably....
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Rainer Duffner If you have a "real" SAN (HP EVA), you can buy block-level replication-software for that. But the...
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